The Streets Part 1: What's that Outside my Window?

During the day I live on a very quiet, almost desolate street.  I walk out and there isn’t a car in sight. At some point after 10pm this street is discovered.  Motorcycles, cars, trucks all pass through this street.  If it has wheels, it’s going down my street.  I find this odd, especially when I want to keep the window open at night to cool off from the extreme heat of the day and I have to keep it closed due to noise.  I liken it to living in the city or as my one UIC friend has explained many times its like Halstead when they pick up the garbage at 7am or some other ungodly hour.